122 State Board of Agriculture, &c. 



HORSES FOR VERMONT. 



BY ALBERT CHAPMAN, OF MIDDLEBURY. 



INTRODUCTION. 



It would not cause any great strain of the memory of 

 those now before me, to remember the time when Vermont 

 horses had the very best reputation of any raised anywhere, 

 and the Morgan l)lood was sought after in all sections, as 

 the best t'voni which to raise horses suited for those uses that 

 demand a high type and pay the most remunerative prices, 

 and many present will remember when stallions raised in 

 this town, and having this blood, brought mucli higher pri- 

 ces than can probably be obtained for any now raised here ; 

 and, as it is very important that horse raisers in Yermont 

 should find, if possible, some reason or reasons for the 

 existence of such a demand for Morgan horses in times 

 past, and why the decline in demand has produced a differ- 

 ent state of affairs, and those who raise horses in Vermont 

 do not now realize as high prices for them as formerly. 

 This, with the fact that Vermont farmers, beino' differentlv 

 situated from large stock raisers in the West and South, 

 cannot profitably pursue the same course in breeding, or 

 raise the same kind of horses for their use and for market, 

 makes the standpoint from which Vermonters nnist view 

 this question very different from that of breeders else- 



